Nobel Prize

I was born in Tunisia in July 1941, during World War II. The war did not leave me many memories, as I was a bit young even at the 1945 armistice. In Tunis I was educated at the College Alaoui and Lycée Carnot until 1957 when I was transferred to the Prytanée Militaire à La…

I was born in Paris in 1958 and lived the first twenty years of my life in the 13th and 14th arrondissements. My late mother, Yvonne, was first a schoolteacher and then stayed at home to take care of her three children: myself, my sister Françoise, and my brother Jean-Marie. My mother suffered from diabetes…

Nobel Prize Conversations “That’s a little bit like everything else in life. Some things work, some things don’t work. The important is to continue going and to enjoy the good things that are happening.” What are the benefits of creating a diverse laboratory? In this podcast episode with physicist Anne L’Huillier, we speak about the…

Through their lives and work, failures and successes – get to know the individuals who have been awarded the Nobel Prize. The host for this podcast is Adam Smith. A time for celebration In this special bonus episode of Nobel Prize Conversations, we shine a light on the many ways achievements in science are celebrated —…

Nobel Prize Conversations “I think science, like sports and culture, can play a really unique role to bring together different nations, bring together different cultures, disassemble boundaries and  borders between countries, between different cultures. I think science can make a huge contribution there” Meet 2023 physics laureate Ferenc Krausz in an in-depth conversation with podcast…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Ferenc Krausz on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Ferenc Krausz: It always fascinated me to enter into a world which is not known to humans, and where we have the chance to discover…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Pierre Agostini on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where did your passion for science come from? Pierre Agostini: I think research is the thing that attracted me to science because before that I didn’t have such an interest. Experiments; doing experiments…

Iwas born in Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt, Germany in 1952. My parents and I lived in an apartment right above the physics laboratories of the University, where my father was an instructor. I also started elementary school there. In 1960 my parents moved to southwestern Germany, to the idyllic Black Forest town of Freiburg, bordering…

Percy W. Bridgman receiving his Nobel Prize from the hands of King Gustav V of Sweden, 10 December 1946.

Roger Penrose was born on August 8th, 1931 in Colchester, Essex, England. His father Lionel Sharples Penrose FRS was a distinguished medically trained scientist, who worked primarily on human genetics, studying mainly the genetic origins of numerous mental conditions, particularly the issue of Downs Syndrome. He had earlier, in around 1920, studied psychoanalysis, travelling to…